Anybody using dual-light setups?

[Diamondback]

Background: As noted in other threads, I have very light-sensitive eyes--so much so that I have to wear polarized lenses almost all the time, and if you see them it's because I consider something so important as to be worth the resulting migraine.

As I look at various HD/pistol builds, and bearing the above in mind, I'm starting to consider the idea of mounting two independent lights even though each adds a quarter-pound. One to be very low-power with a red or green filter for *my* benefit--the way my eyes work, it's like the rod and cone cells somehow wired into the optic nerve backward from normal, easily blinded by day and slightly impaired dead-ahead vision but enhanced peripheral and see better under low-light conditions. (Low-light, not NO-light; I'm as blind as anyone else under total blackout, and much like a starlight scope I need some minimal amount of illumination to work with.) The other, a higher-powered one to dazzle and disorient, something that will fricassee their eyes as much as it does mine or hopefully more. (Thinking a little Coast PX20 for the low-power red, which also carries a backup white if needed, and something like a Surefire E-series for the "dazzler.")

Why am I thinking two lights? One, I want the switches *well* separated, ideally on opposite sides of the weapon, so I can't accidentally fire the dazzler when I'm going for my own illumination. Two, if I have one on each side of my AR pistol's FSB twin-rail, should it be needed in an emergency I've got a spare light to lend.

Has anyone else with similar needs done something similar? I admit I could be headed into Paul Kim's Over-geared Joke AR territory here... but in light of the particular niche application I thought I'd see what the community has to suggest for refining this or considering alternate solutions.

[GFX_9]

Ive seen a few guns set up for NV with dual lights. Its not that crazy. If it works for you, do it. Look at the princeton tech switch rail. Its a small low powered light

[turnburglar]

If you can't handle 600-1000 lumens like all the good new lights, I'd just opt for one of the older 200 lumen models.

Learn how to actually use the light. Techniques like umbrella lighting will help from destroying your vision.

[Slippers]

How about 7 lights?

[bad aim]

The Princeton Tec Switch rail light was designed for your exact purpose...a low-profile light (red/white LEDs) to enable navigation/ personal use when you don't need to fire 600 lumens.

http://princetontec.com/switch-rail

[Diamondback]

Will, that would be overkill LOL... this was an agonizing decision to even consider with most lights being 1/4-lb. or more each and me trying to shave ounces off what's already a seven-pound pistol.

Turnburglar, for illustration: regular unfiltered daylight for me is like staring into a halogen high-beam for most. Filters like red or green lenses help to a degree, but even they have limits...

Bad Aim, that actually does look almost perfect... would be perfect balance on one FSB-rail if I could find a Good2Go similar-size green-beam laser for the other.

[voiceofreason]

My wife prefers a red tint filter over the bezel of her WML that can be flipped open easily.

So she runs red lens cover that can be a white light popping open a cap with a flick.

One light and a red lens filter that pops open like a butler creek cap would possibly fit what you're looking for.

The filter she uses was a surefire one from when the 6P was new.

[Diamondback]

Thanks, voiceofreason--I actually have the Switch Rail dual-beam mentioned above mounted to rest right under my thumbtip and on "dim red" it's almost perfect. It's not a When You Have To Bugger Every Eye In The Room RIGHT NOW, but it actually gives me just the right amount of light for my eyes to work with. The white LED is useless to me, though... too bright for my use, not bright enough to be a good dazzler--if they'd done a red-only version I would have bought that.

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Sorry the pic is small and upside down, but when you open the big version you can see how the thumbrest, AFG and light are just a perfect fit around the CASV for my right hand. (There's a blast deflector going around that brake as soon as the bayo lug is chopped off and the BFD mount is ground down to fit.